kibo@pawl16.pawl.rpi.edu (James Parry) (01/11/89)
[] I'm interested in any programs people might have for simulating single-celled organisms (their evolution, their population, their biochemistry, etc... anything...) Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! ----------------------------- james "kibo" parry | "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." kibo%pawl.rpi.edu@itsgw.rpi.edu (internet) userfe0n@rpitsmts (bitnet) | anything i say represents the opinion of my 72347,2731 (compuserve) | employer, interwox media, which is me.
mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Lloyd) (01/13/89)
In article <2285@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> you write: >[] > I'm interested in any programs people might have for simulating >single-celled organisms (their evolution, their population, their >biochemistry, etc... anything...) Can anyone help? > Thanks in advance! > >----------------------------- >james "kibo" parry | "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." >kibo%pawl.rpi.edu@itsgw.rpi.edu (internet) >userfe0n@rpitsmts (bitnet) | anything i say represents the opinion of my >72347,2731 (compuserve) | employer, interwox media, which is me. I know a response to this should be e-mailed, but something seems to go wrong when I try to do that, so I shall post this. Anyone else who is interested can contact me also. ---------------- Prepared letter: ---------------- Given that you said `anything`, I thought I might drop you a line. I`m not at all sure I have what you are interested in, but all the same ... I developed (as one of a team of Macintosh programmers) a simulation program for cell mitosis. I am no biologist - I`m a mathematician, statistician or computer scientist, as the mood takes - so I don`t know if this has anything to do with what you are talking about. The program is a simulation of the growth of a tissue of cells, some of which have been specially labelled. These labelled cells are monitored as they flow around the usual 4-state system, M-G1-S-G2, multiplying as they go. The point of this was to apply stochastic model theory - that is, make the motion of each cell random, according to a selectable distribution, and watch the resulting effects. Let me know if this relates at all to what you want (I`m not sure it does). I can give you many more details of how the program operates, what you can vary in the program, and (of course) how you can get a copy. Hope I haven`t wasted your time, Mike. -- Mike Lloyd, Dept of Statistics, |"Does anyone understand what is happening? .. Trinity College, Dublin, | They tell me this is living - Ireland. | They tell me this is LIFE!" (mlloyd@uunet.uu.net) | - Michael Been, of "The Call"